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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1974
William R Weissmueller, Jr, Wildwood, IL (US);
Warwick Electronics Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
In a television receiver, a tuning voltage for a varactor tuner is generated by the actuated stage of a plural step neon lamp memory in which each memory stage corresponds to a different television channel. The memory stages are connected as a ring counter which is stepped sequentially by a two-speed oscillator having a fast scan for undesired channel representing stages, and a slow scan to maintain actuation for a short time period of selected memory stages which correspond to desired channels which are to be viewed. Each memory stage includes a potentiometer with a wiper adjusted to generate the tuning voltage. To preprogram the undesired channel representing stages, the potentiometers in the stages are adjusted to produce maximum voltage, which is detected by a threshold switch to cause the oscillator to rapidly step to the next memory stage. A counter detects when all memory stages have been scanned and then disables the oscillator thereby stopping the scanning to maintain selection of the original channel.